DIED. — The BANNER learns by a telephone message from Hempstead that James W. J. Cloud, the slayer of Jos. Farr at the Hempstead Mayfest last spring, died at his home in Hempstead at 10 o'clock on Friday morning of flux after an illness of about ten days.  He will be buried this, Saturday, morning by the Knights of Honor, of which organization he was a member.

"J. W. J. Cloud died at his home..", Brenham Daily Banner, (Brenham, TX), Saturday, September 18, 1886, p. 4, col. 1.